Isotope effects on couplings

Isotope effects on coupling constants are more difficult to recognize than isotope effects on chemical shielding. The difference of chemical shifts between isotopomers is easier to determine than slightly differences in signals splitting. The primary isotope effect on coupling constant defined as ... 

For a diatomic molecule the isotope effect on coupling constant / is given in the following equation ... 

In general, isotope effects on coupling constants are very small and they are seldom reported. Their observation requires that measurements be carried out with a very good accuracy. In what follows, primary, Ap/, and secondary, AsT, isotope effects are defined as in Eqs (86a) and (86b), respectively. 

The secondary a-deuterium isotope effects on azo coupling reactions are small, i.e., km/kiv is very close to unity. For the reaction of the 4-nitrobenzenediazonium ion with the trianion of l-D-2-naphthol-6,8-disulfonic acid catalyzed by pyridine, km/kiv = 1.06 0.04 (Hanna et al., 1974). 

The NMR spectra of the various deuterated tetramethyltin compounds demonstrated that the long-range isotope effects on the chemical shift are additive and operate in the direction of increased shielding. However, there is no significant isotope effect on the H—Sn coupling constant. 

FLF)- (L = H or D) anion in low temperature solutions of (C4H9)4N+ (FL)nF . The authors were able to determine zero-, one-, and two-bond, H/D isotope effects on hydrogen and fluorine NMR chemical shifts for the series n = 1 to n = 3, and to relate the observed spectra to H/D isotope effects on the hydrogen bond geometries. Isotope effects on spin-spin L-F and F-F coupling 13C constants were reported. 

Sergeyev, M. M., Isotope Effects on Spin-Spin Coupling Constants Experimental Evidence, in P. Diehl et al., Eds. NMR Basic Principles and Progress, Vol 22, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1990. 

If secondary isotope effects arise strictly from changes in force constants at the position of substitution, with none of the vibrations of the isotopic atom being coupled into the reaction coordinate, then a secondary isotope effect will vary from 1.00 when the transition state exactly resembles the reactant state (thus no change in force constants when reactant state is converted to transition state) to the value of the equilibrium isotope effect when the transition state exactly resembles the product state (so that conversion of reactant state to transition state produces the same change in force constants as conversion of reactant state to product state). For example in the hydride-transfer reaction shown under point 1 above, the equilibrium secondary isotope effect on conversion of NADH to NAD is 1.13. The kinetic secondary isotope effect is expected to vary from 1.00 (reactant-like transition state), through (1.13)° when the stmctural changes from reactant state to transition state are 50% advanced toward the product state, to 1.13 (product-like transition state). That this naive expectation... 

Deuteration has been previously shown to cause an increase in the lifetime of triplet free-base porphyrins ( 7). This has been attributed to the strong coupling of N-H tautomerism with nonradiative decay. In the case of mesoporphyrin IX the increase upon deuteration is approximately two-fold ( ) As indicated in Table III deuteration of the picket fence porphyrin results in little change in the photostationary state composition but an almost twofold increase in the quantum yield of 4,0 -> 3>1. As stated above there is no measurable deuterium isotope effect on the thermal reaction the proportionate increase in quantum yield and triplet lifetime upon deuteration of the picket fence porphyrin is thus completely consistent with the adiabatic mechanism described above. Although the evidence amassed does not completely rule out other possibilities, it seems that the photoatropisomerization is to date best described by the adiabatic pathway in which the porphyrin ground and excited state potential surfaces are modified much as illustrated in Figure 3. 

Isotopic labels (and especially enriched materials) have proven crucial in the investigation of the mechanisms of homogeneously catalyzed reactions [130]. Further, isotope effects on the rate or the equilibrium constant of a reaction can be diagnostic, and structural information can be provided by isotope-induced changes in the chemical shifts of neighbouring nuclei, and/or alterations in the coupling pattern of the detected spectra. The isotope- and position-specific information inherent to NMR techniques are ideally suited for the analysis of isotope effects in catalysis [131]. 

The remarkable solvent isotope effect on the kinetics of oxidation of guanine by 2AP radicals has been detected in H2O and D2O solutions [14]. In H2O, the rate constants of G(-H) formation are larger than those in D2O by a factor of 1.5-2.0 (Table 1). This kinetic isotope effect indicates that the electron transfer reaction from guanine to 2AP radicals is coupled to deprotonation/ protonation reactions of the primary electron-transfer products (Scheme 1). 

Beveridge and Miller B1> in an INDO study, have calculated the vibronic effects in substituted methyl redicals and have satisfactorily reproduced the trends of isotope effects on isotropic coupling constants (Table 37). 

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